Just Pressed: New Books by Authors on WordPress.com

From a comic diary to a collection of essays on culture and belonging, the most recent published works by WordPress.com authors are great additions to your bookshelf.

Jul 18, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Gabrielle Bell, a cartoonist based in Brooklyn, New York, has published a new book, Truth Is Fragmentary: Travelogues & Diaries. Raw, revealing, and sometimes surreal, this comic diary serves up what Gabrielle is known for — her humor and introspection — as she muses on daily life and chronicles her travels around the world, from France to Sweden to Colombia.

Marilyn started her blog in 2011 after returning from a relief trip to Pakistan — with the hope of finding her voice.

Three years later, Marilyn has grown her blog into a space for thoughtful writing on cross-cultural communication, faith, third culture kids, travel, and the Middle East.

Between Worlds, whichweaves these themes into one compilation, is tangible proof that Marilyn indeed found the voice she had been looking for.

Are you an author on WordPress.com? Have you recently published a book? Leave a comment and let us know.

If you’re interested in previous book releases from WordPress.com authors, check out our May and April 2014 editions. For a glimpse of how authors use their blogs to promote their books, take a look at this post on author websites.

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“Are you an author on WordPress.com? Have you recently published a book? Leave a comment and let us know.”

I’m one of the WordPress.com authors. I have several blogs that support my work. In fact, the evidence suggests that without my WordPress.com blogs, my work would be selling a few hundred copies annually instead of thousands of copies. My first book came out in December 2007, and “My Splendid Concubine” has sold more than 20,000 copies to date and is still selling well—for instance 170 copies so far this month. Last month the book sold more than 3,000 copies.

Sales didn’t take off until after I launched my first serious, dedicated WordPress.com Blog:

My third book is a memoir: “Crazy is Normal, a classroom expose”. I was a public school teacher for thirty years (1975-2005), and for one full year, I kept a detailed, daily journal, that almost twenty years later became the primary source of this memoir.

One of the first three reviews from Tim M. says, “Lloyd has written an honest and fascinating story of a year in the working life of a dedicated California public school teacher. This is a must read for those thinking of becoming a teacher, is a public school teacher or administrator, or has children in the public school system.

“What works most effectively is how Lloyd shows the contrast between the two student extremes – the top achievers who take what Lloyd offers and learns how to conquer the world, and the many slackers who appear determine to sabotage their teacher’s best efforts to teach them the skills they need for a successful future.”

I blog at lifepreserversblog.com and recently self-published “Never Tailgate on a Rainy.” This is a gift book of tips and advice for new drivers. It’s currently on sale on lulu.com — and soon to be available via amazon.com.

Congratulations! I am a new author as well and blog at wordpress.com as Homeista Kelly. The book is a fun and practical model to have a better life. Each page is like chewing a piece of gum – refreshing and beneficial. Read an excerpt and buy at http://www.betterdaybetterlife.com. The blog is there too!

Hi everyone, I released my first novel, The WorldMight, a fantasy imbued with romance and mysticism a couple months back. I started a blog here on wordpress to showcase it and meet interesting peeps in the process. Check it out if you get the chance: http://cyrilbussiere.wordpress.com/

Are you an author on WordPress.com? Have you recently published a book? Leave a comment and let us know. Yep,http://www.mattjohnsonauthor.com my wordpress site that had been a huge help in the success of my debut novel.

I teach a workshop on self-publishing and marketing to authors and recommend they set up a WordPress blog/website as I have (see http://www.uncommonraven.com) to promote the three books I have published. This kind of information about what other authors are doing is so helpful and I will pass it along to my students.

Hi Cheri, I recently published my first book and would love to be featured sometime. My blog is dividedundergod.com, a site dedicated to church/state separation and related current issues. My book is Understanding an Atheist: A Practical Guide to Relating to Nonbelievers. It’s on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and has its own site on wordpress as well – understandinganatheist.com. Thanks!

I, myself, am a new indie writer. I have recently self-published two very short books – nothing to brag about – just to test the waters of my new career; however, I am working on a Young Adult Fantasy novella and a full length book of contemporary and inspirational poetry at this time – which I happen to be quite proud of.

Wow, this post is fascinating. Great comments here! I am a wordpress blogger (ReadingFiction Tales of Terror), a weekly FREE short story by 19th and 20th century authors and some contemporary short story authors too. For a writer of fiction, reading the master writers on a weekly basis is a fun and effective way to keep up on the craft of writing. I have two novels out (quiet horror), The Dazzling Darkness and Night Sea Journey; and several of short stories published in lit journals and ezines.

Hi Cheri, although I have only been blogging for a year, I wrote ten books which I published independently on Amazon under a pen name. You can see them here:http://bit.ly/angel_e-books. I am thrilled to be part of the WordPress community of authors!

Hello! I recently published by book “Dear God: Passionate Prayers in 140 Characters or Less” and it is availabe in Paperbook and ebook on Amazon.com at http://amzn.to/1prxsuy. I blog at the wordpress site http://www.DearGodBook.com and started tweeting prayers in 2009 to encourage myself. I had no idea my words would encourage others. The book challenges some of the things that we have accepted as “truth” based on what we have been taught and examines the power of our words – prompting the reader to draw closer to God by having intimate conversations with Him.

Suggestion, Cheri: a post on WordPress bloggers who have had books published in the past (and missed out on getting mentions). A kind of retrospective that never was, you know ? :-\
If you were to read all the reviews of mine on my blog, not to go into the Comments, you’d possibly wonder how it did get missed … But then, I suppose it’s a matter of the right publicity; and I know for a fact that my publishers were fairly shabby in that area.

We try to highlight as many authors as possible, here on this blog, and elsewhere where we promote our writers and users. There are millions of you out there — we can’t really highlight everyone in one comprehensive list. But we’ll continue to look out for book releases and publishing stories to share here.

Hi Cheri, Just published my first book this month! The title is My Precious Life which is also the name of my website and WordPress blog site. The book is a memoir and is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.uk, Barnes & Noble and other online book stores. It is the story of my life and faith from a toddler to a senior of seventy-seven years of age, and is getting good feedback from books sold so far. Thank you for a possible feature…that would be amazing! I just completed posting 100 blogs in 100 days and am now working on blog 105.

Hi, I’ve been blogging for almost four years over at ocdtalk and have a book being published in January by Rowman & Littlefield called Overcoming OCD: A Journey to Recovery. Not only is the book the story of what helped and what hurt in my son’s amazing recovery from severe OCD, it also includes commentary throughout by Dr. Seth Gillihan, an expert in treating the disorder. For more info, and for links to Amazon and the publisher’s site, please check out this post: http://ocdtalk.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/overcoming-ocd-a-journey-to-recovery/ . The book is already available to preorder for those who are interested.

My first collection of poems and photographs, Separation Anxiety, is available in e-book form from Smashwords. I’m going the Espresso Book Machine for the print edition, which, after several delays, should be available within the next two or three weeks. In addition, I have a second collection (tentatively titled Journalism), in the works. Many of the poems included first appeared on my blog.

I have just published my second book based on Irish mythology, Conor Kelly and the Fenian King. I regularly blog about Irish mythology, and Ireland’s ancient places, and living with a child who has a rare syndrome, and upon whom my unlikely hero, Conor Kelly, is based.

I write about language, culture, place, teaching, life on my WP blog Dewdrops (http://dawnwink.wordpress.com/) and my novel MEADOWLARK was published by Pronghorn Press )http://www.amazon.com/Meadowlark-Dawn-Wink/dp/1932636978/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405726619&sr=8-1&keywords=Meadowlark+by+Dawn+Wink).

Congrats to all authors here! My novel is for any woman who secretly wants a child of a certain gender but feels too guilty to admit that. Or is disappointed because she has all sons and won’t get to experience raising a daughter. Or simply – – for anyone who has tried their best to control destiny! “Lullabies & Alibis”

My name is Damien Comerford and I have been a journalist for 30 years. I have just written a non fiction book called Cover Up. Here is a synopsis:

Cover Up tells the stories of five extraordinary events, which sent shock waves around the globe. Five of the world’s biggest crime stories. They include the deaths of Princess Diana, Pope John Paul I and US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Five stories that remain as mysterious, enigmatic and compelling as the day they happened. Cover Up takes the reader on a journey of new discovery. Reinvestigating each crime, deconstructing the official investigations, examining in detail the forensic clues and information that was overlooked as well as uncovering new evidence.

My published and-award winning stories mostly for young adults but on themes relevant to adults too. I have also just Kindled a novella (originally published in Cicada magazine US) ‘Losing Kui’:http://wp.me/pKVAM-I8

I love WordPress where I can share information and pictures that are the background to my novel. I started blogging just a week ago. First the ebook, then the blog, next the paperback. All a learning curve. Writing the book was the easy bit.

There really are thousands of us on WordPress, aren’t there? WordPress has been so helpful for my career as a poet and novelist. My blog, now six years old, helped me launch my first book of poems, Where the Butterflies Go. Since then, I’ve been published by Winter Goose Publishing ( Carry on Dancing) and Morning Rain Publishing just published my first novel, Strangely Incredibly Good. Thanks for your great support, WordPress!

I am an author on WordPress.com. My book, FROM PLANTATION TO PARADISE? CULTURAL POLITICS AND MUSICAL THEATRE IN FRENCH SLAVE COLONIES, 1764-1789, was published on May 1, 2014, by Michigan State University Press. To celebrate this accomplishment, I held a book signing event on June 7, 2014, at which time select portions of the book were read. For more information on these events, see my website, http://www.davidmspowers.com, or my author page at Amazon.com/author/davidmspowers.

Hi, Everyone,
I have recently published a novel on Kindle for middle grade kids, ages about 9 to 12. Kids can also read it on an iPad or smartphone with the Kindle app. It features a boy protagonist, but has two wonderful girl characters, too. It’s a realistic story with a breathtaking fantasy in the middle.

Go to Amazon to see it: just type in my full name, Catherine Becker Reynolds or the title, “Into the Blue Somewhere” and it will come right up.

My website, catherinereynoldswriter.com will give you all the details, too. Thanks for all these wonderful book and author recommendations!

I have just edited and published on iBooks my late uncle’s memoirs of 10 years as a fighter pilot in the R.A.F. For good reasons it is titled ‘One Life Left’ and I have compiled it from a wad of old typewritten manuscripts handed to me by his daughter. He survived World war 2, but only just – all 19 colleagues he trained with were killed. It was a time when individual aspiration to duty, constant danger and a great feeling of national identity were uppermost in people’s lives.

I have put together a WordPress website as an introduction to the book which is available on iBooks, Kindle, and Lulu as an ePub or hardback version. I am particularly proud of the iBooks version which is interactive and contains 80 photographs taken from his albums. http://wingcommandergarlick.wordpress.com/

My ‘Jungle Book Of Management’ being published on 25 july,2014.These empirical styles took me years to compile, presently a soft cover, available from Broadway, Goa.Would appreciate comments and feed back.

I published Artania: The Pharaohs’ Cry in 2012 and have begun blogging to promote it. I’m enjoying genre jumping from fantasy children’s to adult memoir as I blog or work on my novels. I sell my book on my http://www.artania.net website

After writing my blog for two years I looked at it last summer and thought, “I think I may have a book here.” Nearly one year later my book: Less Stress Business: A Guide for Hiring, Coaching, and Leading Great Employees was published! (on Amazon.com)

When asked to rate the stress they experience around managing people, on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being maxed-out stress), many business owners, managers, and executives rate themselves at a 9 or 10. There is a high cost to all of this stress both in workplace tension, personal health, and a lack of work/life balance. My book helps leaders learn how to lessen this stress and lead with more calm and clarity than they ever imagined was possible.

So, thank you Cheri and WordPress for giving authors like myself an opportunity to spread the word about their writing.

It’s got quirky characters, comedy, drama, surprises…and I’ve been told it’s a fun read all-around. If you like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” or “Fullmetal Alchemist,” you’ll probably like this too. The sequel, “Wolfie Star-Runner Plays with Hellfire” (in which our hero’s adventure really starts to…heat up…is in the final editing phases and will be out within the next few months (hopefully by the end of summer-middle of autumn if all goes well).

My publisher, Lucky Bat Books, recently launched my first novel in e-book format. The paperback is launching in two weeks. My blog has been central to getting the word out and I’d really like to take part in the next go around with this sort of feature.

I’ve recently published a book called Mental Dimensions – Tales of Fantasy for a New Generation. It contains short stories that are similar to fairy tales, fables, and parables. Adults can relate to the stories, and children also receive enjoyment from them.

I published my first e-book ‘Tissue of Lies’ last year and started a blog a few weeks later. I’ve only been seriously blogging for a couple of months and now realise I should have done this before my book was published, not after. My website is http://carolec55.wordpress.com and my psychological thriller can be obtained from http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C7ATLN8

What a great platform you are providing for authors; it’s appreciated.

Hello! It looks like there are a lot of bloggers who have written books. Congratulations ya’ll.

I just finished writing a biography of my father-in-law. He was a pastor from the Midwest who moved to Ukraine with his wife and eight children in 1992. What a challenging life, and what and example. The foreword for the book was written by Christian artist, Jeremy Camp.

My Debut Novel : Dark Fey, The Reviled is a Fantasy genre story set in the primordial forests of mystical time in a land peopled by both Light Loving and Darkness Revering Faeriekind, or Fey, where a relationship between two unsuspecting, kindred souls, separated by far more than social stigma, blossoms in secrecy that could shatter both their worlds. Ayla, a Light loving, Guardian of Childfey hides more than a few secrets; secrets that isolate her and set her apart. Secrets that bring her to the attention of one who comes in shadow and silence; one who watches, waiting for the ideal moment to step from the darkness, reveal the truth about himself and alter the course of her life forever.

It is a tale of Light and Darkness, of Joy and Sorrow, and the Trials and Triumph of Courage and Perseverance.

I started my blog to promote my books. While that’s still the focus, blogging has become so much more. I’m in the process of getting some older works self published. I hope to have five titles available by the end of the year. Three are available now and there are links on my blog. http://coldhandboyack.wordpress.com

It’s wonderful to see the success of so many WordPress authors. My very first published piece, The Orchid Keeper, will be available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, books a million.com as well as booklocker.com (available as an eBook and also a print on demand book). There will be links to purchase it on my blog.

I helped publish a book – “Tales from the Trails of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Bus Driver” – in 2012. It’s available in print and various digital formats. We just a month ago made it available in the iTunes Store. http://cowbudpub.com/

I have 5 books:
1) Where does the Truth Begin
2) Fear…a short dive into why people fear and what
3) The Traveler…today’s affiliated social groups, and difficulties of modern living
4) Word Art 1st Edition….poetry
5) Word Art 2nd Edition….poetry

“Are you an author on WordPress.com? Have you recently published a book? Leave a comment and let us know.”

I am an author taking a different route here at WordPress.com, writing straight commentary on MultiTouch Fiction (at multitouchfiction.com) on the new genre of literature made possible with Apple’s iBooks Author multimedia-publishing platform. There is not now, or ever will be, a single reference to my own work. I issue an invitation to writers, artists and multimedia-content creatives everywhere to explore exciting new possibilities and I wish everyone continued success in their work.

It’s great to rub shoulders with other WordPress authors. My new suspense novel, Riptide is just out. Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indigo and many others in both paper and ebook format: http://www.countrywindow.ca.